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General Software Discussion / VLC player has critical security flaw - July 23, 2019 - UPDATED

« on: July 23, 2019, 11:41 PM »

Yikes -- this is concerning if you use VLC player to play media files.

Researchers from German firm CERT-Bund say they have detected a major safety flaw in the video player, which has been downloaded billions of times across the world, which could allow hackers access to compromise users' devices.

https://www.techrada...itical-security-flaw

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Living Room / My new project -- nodejs multi-user lobby library

« on: June 20, 2019, 07:29 AM »

I just wanted to give everyone an update on what I've been working on for the last month and a half -- a new open source project, written in NodeJs (server-based javascript).

I've been having a ton of fun learning new stuff.  There's a ton left to be done -- another couple of months worth I think.

But I wanted to give an update so you guys wouldn't think I've been AWOL 

A little about the project:

• First, it's an excuse to learn and experiment with some new stuff (nodejs), and do some more open source collaborative coding.
• Second, it will hopefully give me an opportunity to dip my toe into multi-player simple games, the kind my friends and I like to play locally.
• Third, I think I should be able to use the system to provide a better kind of multi-device synchronization of data for some of my (mobile) apps and future projects.

So, what is this project?  Well it's essentially a server and library api for coordinating communication (and data storage) from many users, organized by virtual apps and rooms, with functions specialized for data synchronization and simple non-realtime multi-player games.  One example use would be as a synchronization back-end, so that you could synchronize the data from one of my mobile apps across all your family devices (without needing to share dropbox logins as is required now when I used dropbox as my synchronization backend).  Another, very different example, would be to provide the back-end lobby services and communication support functions for JackBox party style games, where players gather around in front of a tv, each with their own mobile phone device, and play a game together where they input their actions into their phone, and the centralized game asks questions, etc.

In the coming month or two I'll be posting more about the project and sharing a github link to the source code.  If you are a nodejs person, I'd love to have some assistance on the project. 

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Living Room / Dell laptops and computers vulnerable to remote hijacks

« on: May 03, 2019, 04:23 AM »

If you have a dell laptop you need to make sure you are up to date.

A vulnerability in the Dell SupportAssist utility exposes Dell laptops and personal computers to a remote attack that can allow hackers to execute code with admin privileges on devices using an older version of this tool and take over users' systems.
Dell has released a patch for this security flaw on April 23; however, many users are likely to remain vulnerable unless they've already updated the tool --which is used for debugging, diagnostics, and Dell drivers auto-updates.

https://www.zdnet.co...e-to-remote-hijacks/

from slashdot.org

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DC Website Help and Extras / Why do people keep requesting DonationCoder license keys for Pokemon Go??

« on: May 01, 2019, 04:47 PM »

For the past couple of months I've been getting a small but steady stream of people requesting DonationCoder license keys for "Pokemon Go".  It's baffling.
It seems that somewhere people are getting the idea that our license keys work for Pokemon Go.
Does anyone have any idea where this idea is coming from?
 

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Developer's Corner / Red Dead Redemption 2 - Long Article on What Went Wrong

« on: April 24, 2019, 09:56 AM »

Really long interesting article on Read Dead Redemption 2, a much awaited video game (I thought the original was one of the top 10 video games I had ever played).

The most brain-shattering example happens when you play dominoes. You can see neither the board nor your hand from the main default screen while playing dominoes. And I have a big TV, so please, it’s not the TV. But the game is designed so you can zoom in on the board, then zoom out, and then zoom back in on your hand. It’s designed to mimic what it would actually feel like to be realistically playing dominoes.

Not only is this a really obstinate decision, but the board view is actually worthless because the view of your hand is even better and closer than the view that shows you the board. That means you have to hold the left trigger basically the entire time you play to properly see the board. This is a ridiculous choice to me, on every level, because it so readily creates an exhausting experience.

https://www.polygon....ory-design-criticism

from osnews.com

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Living Room / Nice long hacker article on jailbreaking a car head unit

« on: April 17, 2019, 07:02 AM »

Some of us enjoy reading a good man versus machine detective story.
This is a long description of the process of getting access to the software running the head unit (audio, navigation, etc.) in his car.

Back in June, I purchased a new car: the 2018 Subaru Crosstrek. This vehicle has an interesting head unit that's locked down and running a proprietary, non-Android operating system. Let's root it. If this was Android, we could most likely find plenty of pre-existing PoCs and gain root rather trivially as most vehicle manufacturers never seem to update Android. Because this isn't an old Android version, we'll have to put a little more work in than usual.

https://github.com/s...master/doc/README.md

from https://hackaday.com...eaking-a-subaru-qnx/

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Living Room / The Bayrob malware gang's rise and fall

« on: April 15, 2019, 12:15 PM »

Longish interesting article on zdnet about a malware gang that was recently convicted of fraud and scamming people out of money.

The Bayrob malware gang's rise and fall: The story of how a talented computer science student and his friends created and ran a multi-million dollar botnet...
A graduate of one of Bucharest's top mathematics and computer sciences college, Danet won several international computer science contests, even ranking third in an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) edition, and ranking high in many others.
According to Romanian TV station Kanal D, in 2008, Danet was elected the coach of Romania's National Computer Science Team, even though he was still a university student.
"He could have worked anywhere he wanted for the same money he made as a hacker," our source said over the phone when describing Danet's programming skills. "I still can't believe it after all these years."

https://www.zdnet.co...gangs-rise-and-fall/

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Developer's Corner / How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

« on: April 03, 2019, 11:46 AM »

Interesting article on how a big game development team went off the rails.

Very few things went right in the development of BioWare’s latest game, an online cooperative shooter that was first teased in mid-2012 but spent years floundering in pre-production. Many features weren’t finalized or implemented until the very final months, and to some who worked on the project, it wasn’t even clear what kind of game Anthem even was until that E3 demo in June of 2017, less than two years before it actually came out.

https://kotaku.com/h...ent-wrong-1833731964

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General Software Discussion / Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles, browsing web page modifier?

« on: March 29, 2019, 06:54 AM »

Anyone check this out?

X-Ray Goggles makes it easy to see and remix the code behind your favorite web pages.  The best part: you don't need any prior coding experience! Just activate Goggles, click on a section,  and edit. Then, share your remixes with others.

A video demonstrating it:

from my sister

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Living Room / NYT Long Essay: An Office Designed for Workers with Autism

« on: February 22, 2019, 01:27 PM »

Fun long essay on a company that specifically caters to workers on the autism scale..

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?
A business full of people who are on the autism spectrum provides its own kinds of managerial and interpersonal challenges, but to be the norm in an office, rather than an exception, is an unqualified relief for many of Auticon’s employees. Hirasuna noticed the difference in the first week of work, when he was writing an email to his manager. “I realized after the first day, Oh, yeah, I don’t have to read this over for nuance and all that stuff,” he said.

https://www.nytimes....m-office-design.html

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Official Announcements / Announcement: NANY 2019 Final Round-up of All Entries Posted

« on: January 06, 2019, 01:31 AM »

NANY 2019 FINAL RESULTS

Since 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year.

NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together.  There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world.  You can target any operating system (desktop or mobile) or even make a web-based tool.  It can be a game, utility, large application, whatever.  DC takes makes no claim on your software, it's just an event to encourage you to share a creation with others.  Best of all, everyone who participates gets a free commemorative coffee mug.

Thank you everyone who participated for a wonderful event!!! We had some really interesting entries this year.  Some of the entries are polished professional caliber apps, and many are just hobby creations.  Read on for the full list..


Read the full round-up here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=47013.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019 Final Round-up of All Entries!

« on: January 05, 2019, 08:03 PM »

NANY 2019 FINAL RESULTS

Since 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year.

NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together.  There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world.  You can target any operating system (desktop or mobile) or even make a web-based tool.  It can be a game, utility, large application, whatever.  DC takes makes no claim on your software, it's just an event to encourage you to share a creation with others.  Best of all, everyone who participates gets a free commemorative coffee mug.


Thank you everyone who participated for a wonderful event!!! We had some really interesting entries this year.  Some of the entries are polished professional caliber apps, and many are just hobby creations.  Read on for the full list..


SCURLed
A very flexible tool for MS Windows that allows (mass) editing of shortcuts (.lnk or .url files), with ability to do search and replace, and flexible mass editing.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46985.0

Author: Skwire


RegexCaptor
Simple tool for MS Windows that lets you extract matching regular expression patterns from multiple files, with list of favorites and patterns to ignore.. Extracting email addresses was motivational use case.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45497.0

Author: mouser


Process Watcher
A bare bones minimal utility for MS Windows that watches and remembers and logs new and changed processes found running on your pc.  So you will easily be able to see a log of when a program has run for the first time or has been updated.  More features to be added soon.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46631.0

Author: mouser


Fasting Schedule
Android app that lets you define a custom schedule of eating and fasting time windows and can remind you when each is opening and closing.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46721.0

Author: mouser


Streak Tracker
A flexible Android application to help you track how long you can keep different streaks going.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46587.0

Author: mouser


Point Motivator
An Android application that lets you keep track of your score, earning points for activities that you configure yourself.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46586.0

Author: mouser


Rating List DC
A simple Android application that lets you keep a list (organized into tabs) of items that you can assign ratings to (from 1-5).
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46588.0

Author: mouser


cStatus
MS Windows application for monitor network traffic and scanning networks.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46074.0

Author: hugo Nabais


TextWorx
Tool for MS Windows that provides a nicely organized context menu of text manipulation routines (change case, search+replace, etc.) that can be used on text in other applications.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46970.0

Author: BGM


Current Printer
Small tool for MS Windows that lives in the system tray and shows the default set printer on hover, as well as other connected printers when clicked.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46455.0

Author: c. gingerich


startHERE
Open source portable application launcher that uses PortableApps data files to help you launch your portable applications.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46075.0

Author: c.gingerich


DblEscClose
Background tool for MS Windows which lets you tap Escape key twice to close the current window or tab.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46749.0
Auhtor: c. gingerich


AHK Script Center
MS Windows utility to help you managing and run a collection of AHK (scripting tool) scripts.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46944.0

Author: mat2016


Process Started
A tool for MS Windows that displays and continuously updates a window of recently executed processes.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46978.0

Author: anandcoral


StringSimilarity
GUI tool for MS Windows to calculate text-similarity metrics between two snippets of text.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46653.0

Author: Ath


FFFilterGUI
Early release of a tool for MS Windows that provides a GUI front end for FFMPG (video processor) filters.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46986.0

Author: worstje


Shorthand 3_2
An open source GUI tool for MS Windows that uses the Everything search engine API to provide a nice way to search for files.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46878.0

Author: Maestr0


Mass JSON Viewer
GUI tool for MS Windows that lets you easily view, browse, validate, etc. a large directory of json files.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46976.0

Author: wraith808


AudioMarker
A languages learning helper tool for MS Windows that helps you keep notes on translated segments of audio files.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46583.0

Author: Stephen66515


Explorer List
Small MS Windows utility to help you jump to your favorite directories in Microsoft File Explorer.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46846.0

Author: limelect


DisplayOff
Simple non-gui tool to turn off the current monitor and exit.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46783.0
Author: SwanKnight


Cryptogram
Web based (javascript/html) tool to help you solve substitution ciphers (where each letter is swapped for another).
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46981.0

Author: jroman


impd
GTK Application for Linux/mac that plays music through the mpd service
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46514.0

Author: Sjc1000


remv
Commandline tool (open source with binary for MS Windows) to rename files using regular expressions.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45923.0

Author: Tuxman


reddit Whisky expose
Racket language based tool to help you write whiskey liquor reviews on reddit (how's that for a niche application?)
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46809.0

Author: Tuxman


libvldmail
Open source C library for coders that can validate e-mail addresses according to RFC 6531 with a fallback to RFC 5321.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45924.0
Author: Tuxman


logpad
vim/gnuemacs script for adding timestamps to top of log files
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45927.0

Author: Tuxman


gdpr blocking for php
Simple php snippet social commentary script that blocks users from EU ips.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45926.0
Author: Tuxman


The Decision Sieve
Simple web based (html/js/css) utility to take a list of weighted items and remove all but the top n ranked items.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=45925

Author: Tuxman


Net Console Program Generator
Programmer's commandline tool for MS Windows, that speeds up the creation of console utilities.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46408.0

Author: kyrathaba


Huge text/Log file reader
MS Windows Utility that can be used to view huge files by loading only chunks of a file at a time.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45921.0
Author: chesterw


ScrabbleScore
Simple MS Windows utility that calculates the score of a word for the game Scrabble
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46465.0

Author: dmytron


Color Mixer
Web based (html/css/js) utility for choosing a color that is a weighted blend of two other colors.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46662.0

Author: shinkarom


Shiloh Feeding Metrics Panel
Niche use tool for MS Windows meant to aid people recovering from eating difficulties
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46752.0

Author: camerb


Drive Letter Enumeration tool
Mini tool for MS Windows that just lists all connected drives
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45728.0

Author: KodeZwerg


Process Lister
Simple tool for MS Windows that lists the running processes
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46551.0

Author: KodeZwerg


Assignments Warlock
Simple tool for MS Windows to help a teacher create class assignments for the entire week (5 days) of classes that you teach.
Download and discuss: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46987.0

Author: hamradio


You can show your support to the participants by sending some DonationCredits to an author whose entry you especially liked -- just click on their name and look for the link to donate to them.
Or browse the profiles of your NANY 2019 participants: here.
Or go directly to the page to send some of your donationcredits to all of the participants: here.

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Living Room / What are your 2019 New Years Resolutions?

« on: January 03, 2019, 03:05 PM »

What are your 2019 New Years Resolutions? Here are mine:

• Major update to Find and Run Robot
• More regular updates to Screenshot Captor.
• Major update and merge of my Process-related applications (process tamer, process piglet, process watcher)
• Find a couple of dc members to try to make the DonationCoder blog a must-visit page by making it more timely/relevant/active/etc.
• A new website project.
• Experiment with new programming languages / frameworks (cross-platform mobile?)

How about you?

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Living Room / How much of the Internet is fake? Turns out, a lot of it

« on: December 28, 2018, 05:14 PM »

It's not a bug, it's a feature.. The more clicks and views (fake or not), the more money can be made from advertisers.

How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,”

http://nymag.com/int...nternet-is-fake.html

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Living Room / How's everyone doing this year?

« on: December 22, 2018, 10:21 AM »

How are all our regular members of the site doing this year?  This is the season people can be affected by depression and loneliness.. Any site regulars need cheering up?

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Living Room / Google being jerks in order to dominate the internet

« on: December 18, 2018, 07:59 AM »

From https://arstechnica....should-worry-us-all/

The company has "tried to push the Web into a Google-controlled proprietary direction to improve the performance of Google's online services when used in conjunction with Google's browser, consolidating Google's market positioning and putting everyone else at a disadvantage."

YouTube has been a particular source of problems. One example Peter provides has to do with a hidden, empty HTML element that was added to each YouTube video to disable Edge's hardware accelerated video decoding: "For no obvious reason, Google changed YouTube to add a hidden, empty HTML element that overlaid each video. This element disabled Edge's fastest, most efficient hardware accelerated video decoding. It hurt Edge's battery-life performance and took it below Chrome's. The change didn't improve Chrome's performance and didn't appear to serve any real purpose; it just hurt Edge, allowing Google to claim that Chrome's battery life was actually superior to Edge's. Microsoft asked Google if the company could remove the element, to no avail."

Slashdot's take: https://tech.slashdo...nded-the-web-over-to


https://arstechnica....-should-worry-us-all

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Developer's Corner / Anyone used protocol buffers?

« on: December 16, 2018, 05:10 AM »

Again suggested to me by real life friend and previous DC server admin, Gothic:

Protocol Buffers, from google:

https://developers.g...om/protocol-buffers/

"Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages."

Looks quite nice -- and lighter weight in all ways than xml.

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Developer's Corner / Anyone tried the Godot game/graphics library engine?

« on: December 16, 2018, 03:15 AM »

Old dc server admin and real life friend Gothic was telling me about the open source cross-platform Godot programming game/graphics library/engine: https://godotengine.org

Anyone tried it yet? It looks pretty neat.



Looks like it good 2d support as well as 3d.

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Developer's Corner / Anyone trying Flutter? (Android/ios cross platform dev tool from google)

« on: December 05, 2018, 05:37 AM »

Anyone trying Flutter? (Android/ios cross platform dev tool from google)

https://news.slashdo...ment-with-flutter-10

"Google has launched Flutter 1.0, the first stable release of its open source, cross-platform UI toolkit and SDK. "Flutter lets developers share a single code base across Android and iOS apps, with a focus on speed and maintaining a native feel," reports Ars Technica... Flutter apps are written in Dart, and the SDK offers programmers nice quality-of-life benefits like the "stateful hot reload," a way to instantly make code changes appear in the emulator. For IDEs, there are plugins for Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, and IntelliJ. "

See also https://arstechnica....nt-with-flutter-1-0/

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Living Room / Good video on climbing Mt Everest

« on: December 03, 2018, 05:02 PM »

One of my favorite books is Into Thin Air, about a serious tragedy on Mt Everest: https://www.amazon.c...saster/dp/0385494785

Here's a nice video talking about the logistics of climbing Mt Everest:

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Official Announcements / New newsletter is up (Dec 3, 2018)

« on: December 03, 2018, 02:55 PM »

I finally got around to making a new newsletter:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=46772

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Super-sized Newsletter for December 3rd, 2018 - Codename: Wedding Feathers

« on: December 03, 2018, 01:29 PM »

BREAKING NEWS JAN 6, 2018 - Results of our Annual NANY (New Apps for the New Year) 2019 event are now posted: see here.

Super-sized Newsletter for December 3rd, 2018

"Codename: Wedding Feathers"

1. Newsletter Editorial

Hello and welcome to another edition of the DonationCoder newsletter! I'd like to briefly mention a few things before we get to the normal round-up of interesting posts on the forum.

First things first, I want to thank everyone for making our 2018 fundraiser, held in April and celebrating 13 years online, such a big success.  It's been a few years since we had a fundraiser, and I wasn't sure how it would go. In the end, we received over $13k in small donations from everyday users.  It was gratifying and humbling to see our hard work in building the new website honored with such generosity.  It made all the work feel worthwhile.  Thank you all, for not just your financial donations, but more importantly for your enthusiastic encouragement for the site and our non-traditional approach to things.  (If you missed the fundraiser, we would still appreciate your support -- just click the Donate button at the top of our web pages).

Second, I want to call your attention to the 11th annual NANY event on the site, and let you know about its upcoming deadline of January 1st to participate.  NANY stands for New Apps for the New Year, and it's where we invite coders who hang out on the site to release a new freeware application by the first day of the new year.  So if you are a coder, even just a beginner, you might consider taking the opportunity to participate.  There's nothing to win or lose, you just get a nice free mug for participating.  Even if you're not a coder, stop by the NANY 2019 section and try out some of the early releases and suggest ideas for last minute entries, and cheer on the coders who are participating.

Third, on a personal note, I got married since the last newsletter!  Thank you all for your good wishes and thoughts. I am by nature a very private person, but I wanted to share the experience with my extended family here, and I'm glad I did.  I even posted a couple of photos (see below).

Last, I wanted to give a special shout-out to a coder nicknamed "KodeZwerg" who has been programming up a storm on the Coding Snacks section of the forum lately.  His enthusiasm is contagious, and he's even been hanging out in the DonationCoder IRC chat room and making the place a bit more lively this holiday season.  So if you have an idea for a small program you'd like to see created, now might be a good time to visit the Coding Snacks section of the forum and make a request.  And if you find yourself bored at 2am just choose the Chat option from the Help menu on the website and join the late night crew for some meandering chit chat.

Signing off from Champaign, Illinois, USA,
-Jesse (mouser)

• Results of the 2018 DonationCoder.com fundraiser
• NANY 2019 Announcement
• I'm getting married, wish me luck!
• Kodezwerg, a new forum member, stops by to say hello

2. NANY 2019 - New Apps for the New Year - LESS THAN A MONTH LEFT TO PARTICIPATE

For the last 11 years on the DonationCoder.com site we run a friendly event called "NANY" (New Apps for the New Year), where we invite forum visitors to help us celebrate the new year by releasing a new freeware program on the first day of the new year.  We typically get a variety of entries -- some are genuinely useful tools designed to be shared widely, and some are programming exercises for new users.  All participants receive a free deluxe DonationCoder NANY Mug, and we may have some additional prizes donated by members.

If you are a coder you now have less than a month until the January 1, 2019 deadline to enter!

• NANY 2019 Announcement
• Browse the NANY 2019 early submissions and suggest ideas

3. Mouser's Software Updates and Discussions

I've uploaded some updates to many of my large applications since the last newsletter.  As always, you can find the list of what's new both in the online help pages (linked from each program homepage) or in the forum thread about the application (also linked from each program homepage).  I've also released some new android apps and a bunch of miscellaneous updates.

• Screenshot Captor v4.31.1
• LaunchBar Commander v1.154
• MiniCap v1.40.01
• Automatic Screenshotter v1.09.1
• Fasting Schedule (Android app)
• NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher
• NANY 2019 - RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email addresses or other patterns from text
• Checklist DC (Android app)
• ScoreTracker DC (Android app)
• Point Motivator (Android app)
• Streak Tracker (Android app)
• Rating List DC (Android app)
• Updating my Android Apps
• New minor feature I will be adding to my apps on future releases
• How to hide automatic screenshotter?
• Screenshot Captor v4.29.0 - turn off explorer window after save?
• URLSnooper can't sniff wirelessly on Windows 10?
• Fail installing WinPCap on windows 10 64 fixed writing to system/etc.
• Send call commands to skype with FARR... skype:+1555-555-5555?call

4. Member Projects

We love to keep up with projects that our members are working on, and hearing what our forum members think of software they use.  If you're working on something interesting -- let us know!  And don't forget to check out the NANY section above, it's got tons of new software releases by members.

• Skwire App Update: MPCPLed - v1.0.2 - 2018-10-11
• Skwire App Update: Spews - v1.1.2 - 2018-07-06
• Skwire App Update: sWeather - v1.7.5 - 2018-04-30
• Square Root Formula Visualizer: Walk like the Babylonians
• FizzBuzz Quiz
• Notepad logging for (Vim and) GNU Emacs
• GDPR Blocking (PHP Edition)
• OEmbed support for the ElkArte forum software
• The Decision Sieve (first attempt)
• BigTimer
• Working on a DCTCG and found this resource
• Mini review: The Journal
• BazQux Reader - Mini-Review
• Mini review: The Acme editor on Debian on Windows

5. User-to-User: Your Input Requested

We love nothing more than having interesting discussions on our forum -- and we love when new people participate in the discussions.  In each newsletter we try to highlight a few topics that we think might interest casual readers and that are good candidates for making your first post.

• Happy Thanksgiving to DonationCoder folks - 2018
• Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes
• Game giveaway -- anything you want?
• New SSd in an aging PC?
• Gizmo's TechSupportAlert website needs our help
• Thanks for the DC Credits - 3D Printer purchased
• Public thanks to the person from Belarus who sent me a postcard
• Windows 7 update stuck on constant "need to restart" - end of my tether
• Samsung SSD 860 EVO woes - workaround

6. Coding Snacks

The Coding Snacks Section is where people can request small utilities be coded while they wait.

• DONE: Create Folder, Give It Name: Current Date and Time
• SOLVED: Zip set archive time to latest file
• DONE: clean the marked text
• DONE: Append/Concatenate/Merge text files, but prepend filenames
• Files 2 Folder - Unable to read text - too small on 4k tv
• SOLVED: Quick PowerShell Question
• DONE: Tally folder contents by file date
• SOLVED: Tool to calculate file hashes and rename files according to those hashes
• DONE: In sub-folders, delete all files except the largest

7. Website Discoveries, Debates, Essays, Discussions, and Humor

What's new in cyberspace? What exciting new sites have been discovered by forum members?  What's the current hot topic and debate? Read on to find out.

• Energy cost of mining crypto more than the cost of mining precious metals
• Scientists Develop Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun's Energy For Up to 18 Year
• Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History
• Google finds Vulnerability in G+ API. Sunsets G+ in response.
• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
• An article on the slow death of Google by Lauren Weisman
• "If you don't steal [from the commons] you are stealing from your family".
• DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
• Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now
• Photography and Camera Related
• Dawn of the Microcomputer: The Altair 8800
• "How to keep going"

8. Fun, Humor, and Entertainment

Some entertaining diversions.

• World Chase Tag - The Game of Tag as a Sport
• Nice round up of recent new essays on computer gaming
• 4-2: The History of Super Mario Brothers Most Infamous Level
• Mini-documentary about tricking using loopholes in Mario Kart's video game
• A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
• Story of a failed attempt to invent a smartphone in the 1990s
• Funny Video: Multiplayer Flight Simulator Air Traffic Control Job
• Simone Giertz, Building bad robots, making videos, and coping with a brain tumor
• The quest for a completely silent PC

9. Software Discussions

Some noteworthy software discussions on the forum since the last newsletter.

• DonationCoder featured on list of "9 Safest Free Software Download Sites"
• Et Tu, CCleaner! (recommendation to avoid latest version)
• Extract REGEX matches from multiple text files
• Autodesk Sketchbook is now free
• Interesting Software (RainWallpaper)
• Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
• QGIS - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
• Geotagging your photos? gps4cam and other tools?
• eff says immediately disable or uninstall tools that auto decrypt PGP email
• Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon
• Hating on AVG antivirus/firewall (internet security)

10. Developer's Corner

This section highlights some discussions that might be relevant for not just coders and developers, but also people interested in entrepreneurial issues.

• Crazy bug in mod_rewrite for latest Apache 2.4.37
• A little about the Lua scripting language
• irccloud-desktop source code patching and compiling request if possible
• Inform: Past, Present, Future - Story of a Text Adventure Game Engine
• Story of the development of the famous Goldeneye 007 videogame
• OSNews on the Mobile App Store Model
• Delphi for free? YES!! Delphi Community Edition is out!
• Interesting article discussing how C on modern architectures is convoluted
• 3d Printing: Influence of color, printing speed, temperature, age
• Fake reviews are now a firmly entrenched business model
• Working with time on computers

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Living Room / World Chase Tag - The Game of Tag as a Sport

« on: December 02, 2018, 09:53 PM »

Pretty cool actually, World Chase Tag - The Game of Tag as a Sport

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Mouser's Zone / MOVED: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email addresses or other patterns from text

« on: December 02, 2018, 08:55 PM »

This topic has been moved to N.A.N.Y. 2019.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=45497.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019 - Android App - Fasting Schedule

« on: November 27, 2018, 11:17 AM »

I plan to release 1 or 2 more "experimental" diet apps -- or perhaps more accurately, restricted eating apps.
I already have two (Feast Day Fast Day, and Feast Decreaser).

The new ones will just be me experimenting with different systems for restricted caloric intake / intermittent fasting, which has shown health benefits and increased longevity.